Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumor has been unkind to this play for it has said that it is a good play. If you want to enjoy "The Distaff Side" don't go to it with that misapprehension--it's a nice play and Dame Sybil Thorndike must be a very nice woman. It's a reassuring play for it demonstrates with properly repressed vigor that the home is the thing, that women make the home, and therefore women are the thing. It has many nice women in it the grandmother is gruff and self-centered but an fond she is really nice. The middle...
...composer, no one was more surprised than John Laurence Seymour, an obscure California schoolteacher who, with little hope, had submitted In the Pasha's Garden. According to one story the Seymour opera was considered at the request of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, a fellow-Californian. According to another rumor, the Metropolitan judges drew lots when they found they had no new U. S. work which really pleased them. More likely, In the Pasha's Garden was chosen because it has only one act and thus could be cheaply produced. Whatever the reason, it had its premiere at the Metropolitan...
...unconfirmed report yesterday had it that the new Crimson coach, Dick Harlow plans no drastic shakeup in the coaching staff next fall. This rumor, which was given some credence in athletic circles, was to the effect that only Myles Lane, Varsity backfield coach and Cliff Gallagher, Freshman mentor, will not return to their present posts next fall...
...rumor also confirmed the choice of Eddie Casey resigned Varsity head coach as the new Freshman coach next fall. It is also expected that another member of the 1934 Varsity squad will be appointed in a subordinate position...
...members of the Norfolk (Va.) Philatelic Society met, last fortnight, in a blaze of indignation. Beneath their very noses a local dealer was flaunting a sheet of 200 Mother's Day stamps, unperforated, ungummed, and autographed by James Aloysius Farley. Rumor was that the dealer had insured his $6 worth of stamps for $20,000. The philatelists drafted a hot letter accusing the Postmaster General of slipping his friends sheets of unperforated commemorative stamps which promptly "assumed speculative value 10,000 times greater than their original value." Then they dispatched the letter to a famed fellow stamp-collector...